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<title><![CDATA[David Masciotra - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/27226.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Masciotra]]></description><category domain="27226">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Myth of the Establishment Democrat]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/08/27/the-myth-of-the-establishment-democrat/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Masciotra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Establishment is used as a description and even a slur for Democrats in and running for office, but it's really just misleading.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stephen Colbert Represented the Worst of the Left]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/newsroom/stephen-colbert-represented-the-worst-of-establishment-liberalism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Masciotra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Treating a mediocre comic like an inspiring political leader demonstrates the slow and humiliating death of establishment liberals. They inhabit a world in which prestige is their main currency, yet they often spend it on self-congratulation and promotion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Remembering Jesse Jackson's Poetic Synthesis]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/20/remembering-jesse-jacksons-poetic-synthesis/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Masciotra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I wrote a book about Jesse Jackson, and we became friends. The cynics didn't get how he fused moral simplicity and political profundity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elie Wiesel's 'Wounded Faith']]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/08/elie-wiesels-wounded-faith/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Masciotra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's lessons for an age of masked ICE raids, antisemitism, and dehumanization.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trump Values Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/01/28/the-trump-values-crisis/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Masciotra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump policies are bad enough, but the worldviews that undergird them are the graver problem from the front lines to the family dinner table.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Clinton Post-Presidency and Its Discontents]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/12/13/bill-clinton-post-presidency-legacy-and-challenges/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Masciotra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Explore Bill Clinton's post-presidency journey, as detailed in Citizen, and his fight for democracy amid polarization, right-wing media, and global challenges.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey's Liberalism for Our Time]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/01/29/hubert-humphreys-liberalism-for-our-time/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Masciotra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberalism always finds itself beleaguered at a moment of radical polarization, journalist and historian James Traub writes in his deft and thoughtful biography of Hubert Humphrey to be published next month. While the right wing has organized around the destruction of liberalism and the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ted Kennedy's Lonely Liberalism]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/12/28/ted-kennedys-lonely-liberalism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Masciotra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberalism is under assault. Already having suffered decades of reputational damage after Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan battered the word into oblivion, it is now rare to ever hear it with a positive connotation. The right wing continues to equate it with moral decadence and fiscal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Growing Religious Alliance to Ban LGBTQ Books]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/168180/growing-religious-alliance-ban-lgbtq-books</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Masciotra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservative Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, have joined forces with right-wing Christians in a bigoted crusade against gay and trans literature in public schools.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Fan Fiction Left' Behind Biden's Low Approval Rating]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/11/opinions/biden-approval-ratings-left-wing-fanfiction-masciotra/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Masciotra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the most obvious realities of American politics is that the Republican Party, members of which have pushed increasingly hateful rhetoric, is blocking President Joe Biden's reform efforts to improve people's lives. What is much less recognized is that a significant faction of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Does It Mean to Be 'Too Far Left'?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2020/01/02/what-does-it-mean-to-be-too-far-left-and-why-are-conservatives-not-scolded-about-centrism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Masciotra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Only Democrats are expected to make important concessions to the increasingly irrelevant]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump &amp; the Republican Party Hate America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2019/08/18/donald-trump-and-the-republican-party-hate-america-its-time-to-say-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Masciotra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For all they blather on about patriotism, the unctuous Republicans are the ones who really despise their country]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Must Shame Dumb Trump Fans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2016/04/30/we_must_shame_dumb_trump_fans_the_white_working_class_are_not_victims/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Masciotra</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I was a guest on the political radio show '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Beyond the Beltway.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' To no one'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s surprise, the conversation turned to Donald Trump, and I referred to the overwhelming evidence proving his supporters are ignorant and bigoted. The first caller, voice rising to...]]></description>
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